Not so Recent British Sociology

Abstract

From 1929 to 1954 Morris Ginsberg was Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. With the important exception of T.H. Marshall he stands as the representative figure of British academic sociology during that period. He succeeded L.T. Hobhouse who, in 1907, had been jointly appointed with E.A. Westermarck to the Martin White Chair. Since Ginsberg was highly sympathetic to Hobhouse’s approach to sociology and indeed, with him and G.C. Wheeler, had coauthored The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simplier Peoples (1915) there was almost an element of apostolic succession at LSE in the teaching of sociology. Through them generations of students were taught the roots, tasks and scope of sociology.